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If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.
I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains.
I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
Nigel Farage has persuaded too many people that we have lost control of our borders.
I think people don't want to be persuaded. And people don't even like to do the persuading.
I stumbled into acting because a friend persuaded me to leave my 9 to 5 job and get into acting.
I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.
I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.
I was persuaded to see 'The Muppets' by a friend, and I regretted it. A very boring hour and a half.
At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
As humans, we're so easily persuaded. We join this cause or that cause, and suddenly the other thing is wrong.
It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.
I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.
My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.
From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.
Basic clothes are for all women, to last for decades and decades. They are the future and will never change. I am persuaded of that.
Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.
I passed my Lawn Tennis Association coaching exam, and I persuaded my local club to let me use a court after school and on Saturdays.
'Hard Knocks' seems to have done for the self-serious NFL what the witch did for Rapunzel: persuaded it, somehow, to let its hair down.
I'm a Catholic, and not because I just happened to wake up as a Catholic. I'm not going to be persuaded on any topic, especially not that.
I was the cocktail waitress, and Sandra Bullock was the host, and this guy came in and persuaded me to try improv with Gotham City Improv.
Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.
I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences.
I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
I'd been doing the Chicago theatre thing for years. The money was kinda good - thanks to a push by my old pal Capone, who, let's say, persuaded theatre owners to book me.
When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
Sometimes people give to charity because they have been persuaded to believe in a cause, sometimes just to get rid of you and sometimes because they are befuddled and confused.
I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot of reading on my own, so I persuaded New York University to enroll me.
We rich people have been falsely persuaded by our schooling and the affirmation of society, and have convinced ourselves, that we are the main job creators. It's simply not true.
I have always wondered why the movie industry was so firmly persuaded that the original author could be of no possible help in the case of a remake or any other change in a work.
I thought I was the wrong shape: that Miss Marple would be much fluffier than me, much more wearing shawls and things. But I was persuaded, and now, well - I can only do it my way.
Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.
It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty stomach. And forget power breakfasts. There is no convincing anyone of anything before 10 A.M.
I train with joy and fun, because if I'm not persuaded by the squad at my disposal, I try changing things around, moving players into new positions, and trying something different; otherwise, I get bored.
I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.
I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans are equal. And if you got game or you're a good official, you make it here, whether you're white or you're black.